The true value of Easter - keeping our shared values together

Shared values - even if not accompanied by faith - are more important than ever

Today a dwindling band of us will attend services commemorating the
death of Christ on the cross. But within a generation, statisticians
say such churchgoing Britons will be outnumbered by practising Muslims.

On every side, forces encourage us to embrace the new orthodoxy
of unbelief. This week, the National Secular Society called on the NHS
to stop funding chaplains in NHS hospitals. A midwife was recently
suspended from her job after offering to pray for an elderly patient.

And the BBC, which is now zealously promoting the cult of
secularism and rarely misses an opportunity to sneer at Christianity,
is considering appointing a Muslim as its religious supremo.

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All this matters more than we might think. Seventy per cent of
British people still call themselves Christian, and it's their sense of
shared values that help keep our fractured island together.

In these uncertain times, when our material security is
threatened, those values - whether or not accompanied by faith - are
more important than ever.